Barrel-lifter



(No Model.)

M. J. OLSEN.

BARREL LIFTER.

No. 597,243. Patented Jan. 11, 1898.

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MONRAD J. OLSEN, OF DES MOINES, IOYVAL.

BARREL-LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,243, dated January 11, 1898.

Application filed April 16, 1897. fierial No. 632,435. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MONRAD J. OLSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Rack Attachment for Placing Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device of simple, durable, and inexpensive construction designed to facilitate the handling of heavy barrels and casks, and partied larly in placing the same upon a raised platform or rack.

The ob jeot is more specifically to provide a device that may be readily and quickly placed in a position at one part of a platform or rack and so arranged and constructed that the chime of the barrel may be easily placed in the lower end of the device and then the barrel or cask be tipped upwardly, its pivotal point being the edge of the rack or platform, and the device is designed to prevent the side of the barrel from slipping relative to the platform or rack as it is being tipped upwardly into position upon the platform or rack.

My invention consists in the construction of the device whereby it is adapted for the functions stated, as hereinafter fully set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a perspective view with a portion of a rack for barrels and my device applied thereto in position ready to receivea barrel. Fig. 2 shows an end elevation of a rack with my device applied thereto and a barrel in position on the device ready to be lifted onto the rack, and also showing by dotted lines the position of the barrel upon the rack. Fig. 3 shows a perspective view of one of the brackets. Fig. 4c shows in perspective a modified form of litter in which the brackets are dispensed with.

7 Referring to the accompanying drawings, the reference-numeral 10 is used to indicate a barrel-rack, of which 11 is the front upright.

The reference-numeral 12 is used to indicate a bracket of inverted-U shape and designed to overlap the upper edge of the front of the rack and having formed on its front upper surface the lug 13, in which is a bearing-surface 14: open at its top. Two of these brackets are needed for each device.

The remaining part of the device is preferably cast complete in one piece, and comprises two journals 15, formed on the ends of the device and designed to enter the aforesaid bearings.

16 indicates arms extending from the inner ends of the journals to converge in a block 17, the lower edge of which block is beveled at 18, so that it may rest upon the floor upon which the rack rests when the journals of the device are mouhted in the aforesaid bearings.

The reference-numeral19 indicates a shoulder curved at its top surface to conform to the chime of a barrel.

In the modified form of a barrel-lifter shown in Fig. 4c the ends of the forked arms are provided with loops 20, designed to overlap the top surface of a rack, so that brackets may be dispensed with.

In practical use the device is applied to a rack and placed in the position shown in Fig. 1. Assuming that it is desired to employ the device in raising a barrel from the floor to the top of the rack, I first roll the barrel on end to position in front of the rack and place the chime of the barrel upon the shoulder 19. I

then tilt the barrel into the position shown in Fig. 2. "When in this position, it is obvious that the operator may grasp the chime of the barrel opposite the point where it rests, and thereby raise the barrel into position on top of the rack with comparative ease. My improved device prevents the surface of the barrel from sliding relative to the edge of the rack, as would be the case were it not for my improvement. It is obvious that each of the several movements which it is necessary to give to the barrel in order to place it in position on top of the rack may be performed with comparative ease and without raising the entire weight of the barrel at any time. Hence one man may-raise a barrel into position on top of a rack, even though the barrel were so heavy that without the aid of my device it would be impossible for one man to place it in position thereon.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is-

1. A barrel lifter consisting of a device adapted to engage the chime of a barrel and having diverging arms and each one of said arms terminating in bends or loops adapted wardly and downwardly to rest upon the floor or ground surface and having a rounded shoulder formed thereon designed to engage the chime of a barrel, all arranged and combined I 5 substantially in the manner set forth and for the purposes stated.

MONRAD J0 OLSEN.

l/Vitnesses:

J. A. BRAMHALL, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

